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222 cases, 246 documents
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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
President and Fellows of Harvard College v. United States Department of Homeland Security

1:25-cv-11472 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: May 23, 2025

Case Ongoing

On May 23, 2025, Harvard University filed this lawsuit in the District of Massachusetts challenging the Department of Homeland Security's cancellation, on May 22, of Harvard's ability to enroll F-1 students through the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), or employ J-1 nonimmigrants under the Exchange Visitor Program (EVP). Other defendants are the Departments of Justice and State, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and various heads of those agencies. The complaint alleged that …

Preliminary Injunction Granted

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Kennedy

1:25-cv-10814 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: April 4, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenges the Trump Administration’s disruption of NIH grants to state research institutions. These disruptions include delays in the review and approval process of applications, as well as terminations of already-issued grants. Since January 2025, NIH canceled grant application meetings and indefinitely postponed scheduling future meetings. The agency also withheld final decisions on applications that had already been approved through the standard review process. Additionally, NIH s…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Orr v. Trump

1:25-cv-10313 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2025

Case Ongoing

Transgender and nonbinary Americans sued the Trump Administration over its changes to passport policy, which required new passports issued by the State Department to reflect applicants’ sex assigned at birth. President Trump’s Executive Order 14168 directed the Secretary of State to “implement changes to require that government-issued identification documents, including passports, visas, and Global Entry cards, accurately reflect the holder’s sex” as defined within the order. Under this policy,…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Abrego Garcia v. Noem

8:25-cv-00951 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: March 24, 2025

Case Ongoing

On March 15, 2025, as reported by several news outlets, the second Trump administration deported almost 300 noncitizens—mostly Venezuelan nationals and some Salvadoran nationals—to El Salvador without going through any legal process in front of an immigration judge. Upon arrival, they were sent to the country’s mega-prison, the Terrorism Confinement Center or CECOT. This lawsuit challenged the deportation of one of the Salvadoran nationals, who had actually won protection from removal several y…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Denied

EDUCATION
Malick v. Croswell-Lexington District Schools

2:22-cv-11126 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: May 23, 2022

Case Ongoing

The plaintiffs in this case alleged that their daughter’s school failed to adequately protect her from anti-Black harassment and bullying. Represented by private attorneys, the plaintiffs filed suit against the Croswell-Lexington School District and the district school board in the U.S. District Court for the District of Eastern Michigan on May 23, 2022. The plaintiffs sued under 42 USC § 1983 (based on alleged violations of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses), …

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Appeal Pending

PRISON CONDITIONS
Gilliam v. Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services

1:23-cv-01047 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: April 18, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case concerns allegations of harassment and abuse experienced by three incarcerated transgender women with gender dysphoria--one pretrial detainee and two post-conviction prisoners. All three alleged failure to protect, failure to provide adequate medical care, and cruel and unusual punishment under the 14th Amendment (for the pretrial detainee) or the 8th Amendment. All three also brought claims under the Equal Protection Clause, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 504 of t…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
American Council of Learned Societies v. McDonald

1:25-cv-03657 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 1, 2025

Case Ongoing

On May 1, 2025, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Historical Association, and the Modern Language Association filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. They named the National Endowment for the Humanities and its Acting Chairman, DOGE, and various DOGE officials as Defendants. They challenged the dismantling of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), including eliminating nearly all of its programs and conducting…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
A.S.R. v. Trump

3:25-cv-00113 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: April 15, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case is one of several lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA), 50 U.S.C. §21,  to detain and deport noncitizens without due process. You can see all of the cases here. In March 2025, President Trump issued Proclamation No. 10903, 90 Fed. Reg. 13034, invoking the AEA to detain and remove Venezuelan nationals "who are members of TdA" [a gang, Tren de Aragua] (the Proclamation). In J.G.G. v. Trump, twelve detainees and a putative class sought injunc…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Garnett v. Zeilinger

1:17-cv-01757 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 9, 2020

This is a case about delays in receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits in Washington, DC. On August 28, 2017, four recipients of the SNAP and Bread for the City, a nonprofit  that provides  safety-net support to the District of Columbia’s low-income community, filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs filed suit against the  Director of the District of Columbia Department of Human Services (DHS) alleging the …

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Chasin v. District of Columbia

1:05-cv-01792 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Sept. 9, 2005

Case Ongoing

This case was one of two that challenged D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department (DC Fire) rules prohibiting beards and long hair under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).  The plaintiffs, a group of DC Fire employees with religious convictions prohibiting them from shaving their beards, brought this lawsuit against the District of Columbia in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on September 9, 2005. The plaintiffs challenged a DC Fire rule which required …

Injunction Granted

Reversed